Actually, it was Winston Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, who drew the artificial boundaries of a new nation called Iraq. He then appointed a Hashemite King over the new land, who had no previous ties to any of the groups making up the new nation. Why did anyone think that would work? He later regretted not giving the Kurds their own nation. Nothing much has changed in the intervening eighty-three years.
Actually, it was Winston Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, who drew the artificial boundaries of a new nation called Iraq. He then appointed a Hashemite King over the new land, who had no previous ties to any of the groups making up the new nation. Why did anyone think that would work? He later regretted not giving the Kurds their own nation. Nothing much has changed in the intervening eighty-three years.